The New York Rangers took issue with Brandon Prust‘s questionable hit on Rangers forward Derek Stepan early in the first period of Thursday’s game and the NHL has scheduled a hearing to discuss the Canadiens forward’s actions, but not everyone is against it.

I don’t know man…Eller was bleeding profusely and had to be taken out on a stretcher. Stepan got up and played the whole game. I don’t think the two are comparable.

Unless you’re blind, which makes sense

njadvocate111 - May 23, 2014 at 2:38 PM

One is a Hab and the other is a man. Don’t need to be a brain surgeon to understand that. Once again, pity party for the Hab’s being “targeted by goons”, but god forbid holding them accountable for their actions

Even if he didn’t believe that I’m not sure that you’re going to find a player who will stand up and say “yeah, my guy laid a dirty hit on another player and should be punished for it.”

On a semi-related note – playing 17 minutes of hockey with a broken jaw and doling out hits along the way is pretty monster. I have no doubt if this happened to Crosby he would be curled up in the fetal position in Mario’s suite. Mario would be on one phone talking to the press about how dirty players like Prust have no place in the league while screaming “Find me Matt Cooke” into another phone.

On a semi-related note – playing 17 minutes of hockey with a broken jaw and doling out hits along the way is pretty monster. I have no doubt if this happened to Crosby he would be curled up in the fetal position in Mario’s suite. Mario would be on one phone talking to the press about how dirty players like Prust have no place in the league while screaming “Find me Matt Cooke” into another phone.

A little obsessed with Crosby or is envy? Need to buy a good slice of cheese to go with the whine skippy.

“But it definitely woke everyone up.?” It did? Montreal seemed to be in a slumber for most of the game. I don’t remember a team coughing up the puck so many times. P.K. Subban was terrible. The only reason they won was because of Dustin Toskarski. And because Henrik Lundqvist had an off night. Montreal will have to play a hell of a lot better if they want to win Sunday night.

I thought the Rangers were the better team again last night, but even they had to rely on “puck luck” to get even with Kreider’s deflection.

If you had told me that the Rangers would be up 2-1 in the series after the first three games I would have been jumping for joy. But to lose in OT, that’s tough. Hopefully, it’s just a small bump in the road.

njadvocate111 - May 23, 2014 at 3:21 PM

@Charlie- So did Stepan run Emelin…or did he “kind of miss him”. Are you losing track of your excuses? I don’t blame you, as a Hab’s fan thats a full time job. .

Hit him hard into the boards, and proceeded to smash his face into the boards…You’re a moron, chirp harder bud.

canadatude - May 23, 2014 at 3:37 PM

Stepan actually broke his jaw when he was yapping so much as he left the ice. The hit was on his torso, not his face.
If you follow the play to the other end, you see Nash use the Rangers’ trademark kamikaze move of diving skates first through the crease at the goalie. Only this time they missed.

Prust was very well liked when he played for the Rangers. I’ve always liked him, but this was a bad hit.

Montreal fans have been absolutely delusional with this, the Price-Kreider incident, and with denying the fact that they’ve repeatedly scored with too many men on the ice. They also have a hard time acknowledging how dirty the golden boy Subban has been this series.

This series? PK is as dirty as a coal miner’s overalls, he just has some sort of special permission that allows him to slew foot directly in front of linesmen and get 1 call out of 100. I hope he gets shut down the rest of this series.